autossh

If you are lazy and don't want to type the whole ssh or scp commands over and over again, you'll love this.

If you don't wish to use the default ~/ssh_hosts_list hosts file, export the variable AUTOSSH_REMOTE_HOSTS on your .profile or equivalent pointing to your custom hosts file.

Examples of use:

• autossh prompts to connect to any of your registered remote hosts.
• autossh -e edits your remote hosts file, creating a sample if not existent.
• autossh -x -r 3 or autossh -x -r3 connects you to the third remote available, sorted alphabetically, from your hosts file.
• autossh -xr1 -d. /absolute/path/files* downloads all files matching the pattern /absolute/path/files* from your registered remote #1 to the current working directory, showing the scp command that will be executed beforehand.
• autossh -r1 -u /absolute/remote/path/ /absolute/path/files* relative/path/files* uploads all files matching the patterns /absolute/path/files* and relative/path/files* from your local computer to the /absolute/remote/path/ directory on your registered remote host #2.
• autossh -xc50 -d relative/destination/path /absolute/path/files* relative/path/files* downloads all files matching the patterns /absolute/path/files* and relative/path/files* from your registered remote #1 to the relative/destination/path directory, showing the scp command that will be executed beforehand.

Installation:

Running the following command will install autossh to $HOME/programs, substitute the current link to /usr/local/bin/autossh and create, if not yet existing, the $HOME/ssh_hosts_list file as an example.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcosalles/autossh/master/install | sh